hookedness

Updated: May 21, 2025

The chaste-tree blossoms, and the grapes grow ripe; Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies